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Shia LaBeouf, shown here
at a 2013 movie premiere,
has been embroiled in a pla-
giarism controversy.
By Jana Banin
LaBeoufskywrites apology
HOLLYWOOD, Fla.
(JTA)--Shia LaBeouf, the
27-year-old "Transformers"
star, has been the center of a
plagiarism controversy.
LaBeouf&apos;s recently re-
leased short film "Howard-
Contour.corn" appears to be
a near replica of veteran car-
toonist Daniel Clowes' 2008
comic "Justin M. Damiano."
Clowes apparently was blind-
sided by the plagiarism, tell-
ing Buzzfeed that he had no
idea of the film's existence
until it was released online
in December.
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LaBeouf has been tweeting
bizarre apologies for weeks,
many of which turned out
to be plagiarized themselves
from sources as diverse as
Robert McNamara and Mark
Zuckerberg. But LaBeouf
topped himself, literally,
when he took to the skies
tweeting an image of a sky-
written message--because
clearly writing "I am sorry
Daniel Clowes" in the sky
above Los Angeles was a logi-
cal response to the situation.
There was one flaw in
LaBeouf's plan: Clowes lives
in the Bay Area, hundreds of
miles north of the L.A. ether.
Harry Styles' New Year's
resolution: Learn Hebrew
Hebrew school-dreading
children everywhere may
have a new and very surpris-
ing source of inspiration.
According to the Daily Star,
boy band One Direction's
Harry Styles has taken up
Hebrew lessons.
"Harry's made it his mis-
sion to learn to speak and
write Hebrew," a source
said, adding that the British
cutie plans to devote 2014
to picking up the language.
"So far he's learned to write
his name and One Direction
in Hebrew."
It isn't the first time that
Styles, 19, who is not Jew-
ish, has shown an interest
in Jewish culture. In 2012
he got a tattoo of his sister
000000ouneemen!
Katie Daughtery Faircloth and
Michael Benjamin Goldwasser
Katie Daughtery Faircloth and Michael Benjamin
Goldwasser were married on Nov. 10, 2013, in Heath-
row, Fla.
The wedding and reception were held at Heathrow
Country Club. Rabbi Aaron Rubinger officiated at the
wedding ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Liz Faircloth of Long-
wood, and Gary Faircloth of Altamonte Springs. She
is the granddaughter of Barbara and Edsel Prast and
Betty and Benjamin Faircloth.
The groom is the son of Annette and Albert Gold-
wasser of Lake Mary. He is the grandson of Zelda and
the late Sol Newman and Ann and Harold Goldwasser.
Katie is a recent graduate at University of Central
Florida with a bachelor's degree in elementary educa-
tion.
Michael is also a graduate of University of Central
Florida with a bachelor's degree in hospitality manage-
ment. He is employed by JHM Hotels as an assistant
general manager.
The couple resides in Lake Mary.
Gemma's name in Hebrew, he
occasionally tweets Yiddish
and Hebrew phrases, and in
August he was spotted at a
Manhattan kosher eatery.
Apparently he's had some
guidance from his Jewish pal
Ben Winston, who bought
him the kippah he wore to
that very meal.
"Ben has been helping him
with Jewish cultural tips and
Harry has even taken the
prayers at their house on
the Sabbath," the unnamed
friend said.
We hope he sticks with
his resolution--at least long
enough to be able to throw
around some Hebrew on stage
when One Direction hits Israel
later this year.
Seinfeld reveals new col-
laboration with Larry David
Jerry Seinfeld and Larry
David have teamed up for a
new project, and it's big. And,
well.., that's it.
Other than the fact that the
thing is about "intentional
mumbling" and that we will
see it "eventually," Seinfeld
revealed little else about the
script while answering audi-
ence questions on Reddit.
com. Reddit's AMA, or "Ask
me Anything," feature allows
members of the popular social
website to ask questions to
significant figures. Seinfeld
opened up to questions on
Monday.
Although he was reti-
cent about the new mystery
project, Seinfeld was more
vocal on other topics. In the
interactive interview, the
comedian spoke about going
for bagels and lox with his
kids, scrapping an episode of
"Seinfeld" in which Jerry buys
a handgun, his favorite sup-
porting character on the show
(Newman!), and much more.
Oh yeah, and there was
also that plug for season 3 of
his web series Comedians in
Cars Getting Coffee, with a
debut episode featuring Louis
C.K. It's no "Seinfeld" part 2,
but it'll do until "eventually"
finally hits.
David Copperfield engaged
to model girlfriend
Mazel tov to David Cop-
perfield and Chloe Gosselin
on their engagement!
The 57-year-old Jewish
illusionist formerly known
as David Kotkin and his new
fiance, a 28-year-old French
model, have a 3-year-old
daughter together named Sky.
It's the second time Copper-
field has popped the question
to a model. Back in the '90s,
he was famously engaged to
Claudia Schiffer for six years
before the relationship fizzled.
"Oh, that was a long time
ago," he told Hello! Magazine.
"Now I'm engaged and in a
committed relationship with
Chloe in my mind and my
heart."
No news on wedding plans
yet, but we're betting on
Copperfield Bay, the magic
man's very own 11-island
archipelago in the Caribbean
where Penelope Cruz and
Javier Bardem were hitched.
DiCaprio defends 'Wolf of
Wall Street'
Leonardo DiCaprio has
responded to critics who
say that "The Wolf of Wall
Street,"Martin Scorsese's new
flick about the '90s reckless-
ness of Wall Street bankers,
condones the horrible behav-
ior of its characters.
In the film, DiCaprio plays
Jordan Belfort, a real-life
stockbroker (raised by two
Jewish accountants) who
partied hard and defrauded
clients. After being convicted
of stock fraud and forced to pay
restitution to victims, Belfort
wrote a memoir on which the
film is based.
The movie delves deeply
into Belfort's party-boy life-
style, with its drugs, yachts
and doing drugs on yachts--
not to mention his scornful
attitudes toward women (the
movie contains a marital
rape scene). Some critics
see Scorsese's glamorous
portrayal as tantamount to
an endorsement of Belfort's
behavior, which cost his cli-
ents millions.
"This film may be mis-
understood by some," Di-
Caprio told Variety. "I hope
people understand we're not
condoning this behavior, that
we're indicting it. The book
was a cautionary tale and if
you sit through the end of the
film, you'll realize what we're
saying about these people
and this world because it's an
intoxicating one."
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The Lifecyclist
Seattle couple gets married...
and married.., and married
By Debra Rubin
(JTA)--In less than a year,
Dane Kuttler and Rowan
Parker exchanged vows in
10 different wedding ceremo-
nies at 10 different venues
on two coasts under nine
different marriage canopies.
In what Kuttler calls
"Wedding Tour '13," the
introverted Seattle couple
wanted to share their cele-
bration with as many friends
and family as possible while
avoiding the pressures of one
big party.
"It was fun," Parker said.
"We wanted to travel. We
wanted to take a big vaca-
tion."
The couple first exchanged
vows in February in the
Florida apartment of Kut-
tler's grandmother under a
tallit she had used when she
became an adult bat mitzvah.
Another ceremony was held
over Memorial Day weekend
in a waterfront town west of
Seattle that Parker'sUnitar-
ian family has been visiting
since he was a child.
The largest was held in
August at the Van Saun Park
Zoo in Paramus, N.J., where
Kuttler grew up. Like most
of the ceremonies, it was
outdoors and the couple's
parents held a huppah made
from a prayer shawl belong-
ing to Kuttler's mother.
The final ceremony was
held the day after Rosh
Hashanah in a Seattle park
underneath a huppah Kut-
tier estimates was about the
size of a king-sized bed sheet.
In total, some 150 people
witnessed the couple ex-
change vows.
"I'm against the legal
institution that confers
special rights on those who
choose to monogamously co-
habitate," said Kuttler, who
concedes the main reason
the couple married was to
Bat Mitzvah
Kayla Marilyn Lewis,
daughter of Sheri and
Tom Lewis of Winter
Springs, will be called
to the Torah as a bat
mitzvah on Jan. 25, 2014
at Congretion of Reform
Judaism.
Kayla, is a seventh-
grader at Indian Trails
Middle school in Winter
Springs where she is in
mixed chorus and Beta
club. She maintains a
4.0 GPA.
Her hobbies and interests include reading, swim-
ming and hanging with her friends. Kayla's mitzvah
project was collecting donations for the Seminole
County Animal.
Sharing in the family's simcha are family and
friends from Alaska, Texas, New York and California.
Dane Kutler and Rowan Parker celebrating at one of their
10 wedding ceremonies in 2013.
add Parker to her insurance
plan. "These things are
meaningful--maybe more
to my family than to me. But
my parents did say, 'We're not
throwing a barbecue for the
whole family unless there's
a reason.'"
Kuttler alternated among
three sundresses at the
ceremonies, while Parker, a
preschool teacher who iden-
tifies as transgender, wore
a black Utilikilt, a version
of the traditional Scottish
attire with pockets for tools.
"I don't consider myself
traditionally gendered, so it
was away of playing with my
gender," said Parker, 28. "The
Utilikilt, at least in Seattle, is
avery masculine symbol, but
in other parts of the country
can be seen as a skirt."
Each ceremony included
two readings--a poetic
interpretation of the tradi-
tional seven blessings and
a Unitarian reading. Parker
broke a glass and the couple
recited vows they had writ-
ten. A love song written by a
friend's 11-year-old daughter
was performed as well. None
of the ceremonies included
an officiant.
"Somehow it was impor-
tant to me that it has always
been just the two of us under
the huppah, that there not be
a third-party officiant," said
Kuttler, 27, a poet who works
as a cancer information
specialist for the National
Cancer Institute.
Legal status was conferred
by Parker's mother, Lynn, a
minister in the Universal Life
Church. The couple told her
they wanted some assistance
with insurance forms.
"When we showed up with
the marriage certificate, we
blindsided her," Parker said.
The document was signed
on April 22, a date they don't
count as one of their 10
ceremonies.
Kuttler's father, David,
said his daughter's wedding
was vastly different from the
one her sister Liora had in
October.
"For Liora's, I was in a
tuxedo," David said. "Dane's,
I was in shorts. It was very
different. Kind of bizarre,
but fun."
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